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Journal of Latin American Studies , Volume 45 , Issue 4 , November 2013, pp. 871 - 877
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Anthropology and Sociology

Kirk S. Bowman, Peddling Paradise: The Politics of Tourism in Latin America (Boulder, CO, and London: Lynne Rienner, 2013), pp. x + 187, £44.50, hb.

Angelina Snodgrass Godoy, Medicines and Markets: Intellectual Property and Human Rights in the Free Trade Era (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013), pp. xiv + 183, $80.00, $24.05 pb and e-book.

Mark Goodale and Nancy Postero (eds.), Neoliberalism Interrupted: Social Change and Contested Governance in Contemporary Latin America (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013), pp. xvi + 317, $90.00, $27.95 pb and e-book.

Lauren Shaw (ed.), Song and Social Change in Latin America (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013), pp. vi + 249, £44.95, hb.

Archaeology

Thomas Besom, Inka Human Sacrifice and Mountain Worship: Strategies for Empire Unification (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2013), pp. xviii + 309, $65.00, hb.

Ian Farrington, Cusco: Urbanism and Archaeology in the Inka World (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2013), pp. xx + 431, $79.95, hb.

Antonia E. Foias, Ancient Maya Political Dynamics (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2013), pp. xiv + 289, $79.95, hb.

Cultural Studies

Verónica Cortínez and Manfred Engelbert, La tristeza de los tigres y los misterios de Raúl Ruiz (Santiago: Editorial Cuarto Propio, 2011), pp. 357, pb.

Rafael Dobado González and Andrés Calderón Fernández (eds.), Pintura de los reinos: identidades compartidas en el mundo hispánico. Miradas varias, siglos XVI–XIX (Mexico City: Academia Mexicana de la Historia, Real Academia de la Historia and Fomento Cutural Banamex, 2012), pp. 339, pb.

Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Pablo Vila, Cumbia! Scenes of a Migrant Latin American Music Genre (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2013), pp. viii + 302, £70.00, £16.99 pb.

Jean Franco, Cruel Modernity (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2013), pp. 326, £67.00, £16.99 pb.

Economics

William Ascher and Natalia Mirovitskaya (eds.), Economic Development Strategies and the Evolution of Violence in Latin America (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. xvi + 280, £57.50, hb.

History

Jeremy Baskes, Staying Afloat: Risk and Uncertainty in Spanish Atlantic World Trade, 1760–1820 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013), pp. xiv + 393, $70.00, hb and e-book.

José Carlos Chiaramonte, Usos políticos de la historia: lenguaje de clases y revisionismo histórico (Buenos Aires: Editorial Sudamericana, 2013), pp. 300, pb.

Martha Few and Zeb Tortorici (eds.), Centering Animals in Latin American History (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2013), pp. xiv + 391, £71.00, £17.99 pb.

David González Cruz (ed.), Descubridores de América: Colón, los marinos y los puertos (Madrid: Sílex Universidad, 2012), pp. 418, pb.

Richard Graham, Independence in Latin America: Contrasts and Comparisons (3rd edition, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2013), pp. x + 194, $55.00, $24.95 pb.

Peter V. N. Henderson, The Course of Andean History (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2013), pp. xvii + 377, $34.95, pb.

Jens Streckert, Die Hauptstadt Lateinamerikas: Eine Geschichte der Lateinamerikaner im Paris der Dritten Republik (1870–1940) (Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, 2013), pp. 340, €49.90, hb.

Nathan Wachtel, The Faith of Remembrance: Marrano Labyrinths (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), pp. xiv + 390, $59.95; £39.00, hb.

International Relations

Osvaldo Rosales and Mikio Kuwayama, China and Latin America and the Caribbean: Building a Strategic Economic and Trade Relationship (Santiago: ECLAC/CEPAL, 2012), pp. 235, £17.50, pb.

Latino/Latina Studies

Arturo J. Aldama, Chela Sandoval and Peter J. García (eds.), Performing the U. S. Latina and Latino Borderlands (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2013), pp. xv + 504, $90.00, $29.99 pb and e-book; £65.00, £22.99 pb and e-book.

Linda Allegro and Andrew Grant Wood (eds.), Latin American Migrations to the U. S. Heartland: Changing Social Landscapes in Middle America (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2013), pp. xiii + 319, $65.00, hb.

Michelle Madsen Camacho and Susan M. Lord, The Borderlands of Education: Latinas in Engineering (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2013), pp. ix + 147, £37.95, hb.

Politics

Carlos Alba, Marianne Braig, Stefan Rinke and Guillermo Zermeño (eds.), Entre espacios: movimientos, actores y representaciones de la globalización (Berlin: Verlag Walter Frey, 2013), pp. 244, €19.80, pb.

Jerry Dávila, Dictatorship in South America (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), pp. xvi + 207, £15.99, pb.

Todd A. Eisenstadt, Michael S. Danielson, Moisés Jaime Bailón Corres and Carlos Sorroza Polo (eds.), Latin America's Multicultural Movements: The Struggle between Communitarianism, Autonomy, and Human Rights (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. xiii + 288, $29.95, pb.

Laura Gómez-Mera, Power and Regionalism in Latin America: The Politics of MERCOSUR (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013), pp. xviii + 286, $35.00 pb, $24.50 e-book.

Vidya Nadkarni and Norma C. Noonan (eds.), Emerging Powers in a Comparative Perspective: The Political and Economic Rise of the BRIC Countries (New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2013), pp. xiv + 239, £17.99, pb.

James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer, Imperialism and Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century: A System in Crisis (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), pp. vi + 247, £55.00, hb.

Jennifer Pribble, Welfare and Party Politics in Latin America (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. xv + 214, £60.00, hb.

Ignacio Walker, Democracy in Latin America: Between Hope and Despair (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013), pp. xvi + 262, $38.00 pb, $26.60 e-book.

ANDES

Emma Cervone, Long Live Atahualpa: Indigenous Politics, Justice, and Democracy in the Northern Andes (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2013), pp. xiii + 332, £67.00, £16.99 pb.

Antonio Cornejo Polar, Writing in the Air: Heterogeneity and the Persistence of Oral Tradition in Andean Cultures (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2013), pp. x + 212, £60.00, £14.99 pb.

ARGENTINA

Mike Gonzalez and Marianella Yanes, Tango: Sex and Rhythm of the City (London: Reaktion Books, 2013), pp. 216, £14.95, pb.

Francesca Lessa, Memory and Transitional Justice in Argentina and Uruguay: Against Impunity (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. xvi + 319, £57.50, hb.

Lauren Rea, Argentine Serialised Radio Drama in the Infamous Decade, 1930–1943: Transmitting Nationhood (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 191, £55.00, hb.

Marcela Ternavasio (ed.), Historia de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, vol. 3: De la organización provincial a la federalización de Buenos Aires (1821–1880) (Buenos Aires: Unipe, Editorial Universitaria and Edhasa, 2013), pp. 409, pb.

BOLIVIA

Derrick Hindery, From Enron to Evo: Pipeline Politics, Global Environmentalism, and Indigenous Rights in Bolivia (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2013), pp. xxiii + 302, $55.00, hb.

E. Gabrielle Kuenzli, Acting Inca: National Belonging in Early Twentieth-Century Bolivia (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013), pp. xi + 194, $26.95, pb.

BRAZIL

John Burdick, The Color of Sound: Race, Religion, and Music in Brazil (New York and London: New York University Press, 2013), pp. xi+225, $25.00, pb.

Kimberly L. Cleveland, Black Art in Brazil (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2013), pp. xii + 173, $74.95, hb.

Hernán F. Gómez Bruera, Lula, the Workers' Party and the Governability Dilemma in Brazil (New York and London: Routledge, 2013), pp. xviii + 259, £85.00, hb.

Hendrik Kraay, Days of National Festivity in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1823–1889 (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013), pp. xii + 562, $70.00, pb and e-book.

Maxine L. Margolis, Goodbye, Brazil: Émigrés from the Land of Soccer and Samba (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2013), pp. xvii + 289, $29.95 pb, $24.95 e-book.

David Treece, Brazilian Jive: From Samba to Bossa and Rap (London: Reaktion Books, 2013), pp. 232, £14.95, pb.

CARIBBEAN

Terrence W. Farrell, The Underachieving Society: Development Strategy and Policy in Trinidad and Tobago, 1958–2008 (Kingston, Jamaica: University of the West Indies Press, 2013), pp. xii + 290, $30.00, pb.

CENTRAL AMERICA

Keri Vacanti Brondo, Land Grab: Green Neoliberalism, Gender, and Garifuna Resistance in Honduras (Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2013), pp. xii + 233, $55.00, hb.

CHILE

Cath Collins, Katherine Hite and Alfredo Joignant (eds.), The Politics of Memory in Chile: From Pinochet to Bachelet (Boulder, CO, and London: First Forum Press, 2013), pp. xix + 279, £56.50, hb.

Alessandro Fornazzari, Speculative Fictions: Chilean Culture, Economics, and the Neoliberal Transition (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013), pp. viii + 158, $24.95, pb.

Iván Jaksic, Rebeldes académicos: la filosofía chilena desde la Independencia hasta 1989 (Santiago: Ediciones Universidad Diego Portales, 2013), pp. 386, pb.

Patricia Richards, Race and the Chilean Miracle: Neoliberalism, Democracy, and Indigenous Rights (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013), pp. xii + 261, $26.95, pb.

Patience A. Schell, The Sociable Sciences: Darwin and His Contemporaries in Chile (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. xii + 297, £55.00, hb.

Sol Serrano, Macarena Ponce de León and Francisca Rengifo (eds.), Historia de la educación en Chile (1810–2010), vol. 1: Aprender a leer y escribir (1810–2010), pp. 397; vol. 2: La educación nacional (1880–1930), pp. 489 (Santiago: Taurus, 2012), pb.

CUBA

Al Campbell (ed.), Cuban Economists on the Cuban Economy (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2013), pp. xvii +337, $79.95, hb.

Salim Lamrani, The Economic War against Cuba: A Historical and Legal Perspective on the U. S. Blockade (New York: Monthly Review Press, 2013), pp. 142, $12.95, pb.

Kathleen López, Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2013), pp. ix + 339, $69.95, $29.95 pb.

Stephan Palmié, The Cooking of History: How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2013), pp. xii + 360, $27.50; £19.50, pb.

Alexandra T. Vazquez, Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2013), pp. xviii + 333, £64.00, £17.99 pb.

ECUADOR

Jean Muteba Rahier, Kings for Three Days: The Play of Race and Gender in an Afro-Ecuadorian Festival (Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2013), pp. xii + 197, $85.00, $25.00 pb.

GUATEMALA

William Stanley, Enabling Peace in Guatemala: The Story of MINUGUA (Boulder, CO, and London: Lynne Rienner, 2013), pp. x + 341, £19.50, pb.

HAITI

Beverly Bell, Fault Lines: Views across Haiti's Divide (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013), pp. xix + 235, $59.95, $18.95 pb; £36.95, £11.95 pb.

Millery Polyné (ed.), The Idea of Haiti: Rethinking Crisis and Development (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2013), pp. xxxvii + 292, $75.00, $25.00 pb.

MEXICO

Mónica Blanco, Historia de una utopía: Toribio Esquivel Obregón (1864–1946) (Mexico City: El Colegio de México and Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2012), pp. 282, pb.

Mónica Blanco and Paul Garner (eds.), Biografía del personaje público en México, siglos XIX y XX (Mexico City: Facultad de Economía, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2012), pp. 273, pb.

Catherine Cocks, Tropical Whites: The Rise of the Tourist South in the Americas (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), pp. 255, $59.95; £39.00, hb.

Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, Democracy in ‘Two Mexicos’: Political Institutions in Oaxaca and Nuevo León (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. xvi + 219, £57.50, hb.

Mark Z. Christensen, Nahua and Maya Catholicisms: Texts and Religion in Colonial Central Mexico and Yucatan (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, and Berkeley, CA: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2013), pp. xiv + 318, $65.00, hb.

Tatiana Flores, Mexico's Revolutionary Avant-Gardes: From Estridentismo to ¡30–30! (New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2013), pp. xii + 348, £45.00, hb.

Heather Fowler-Salamini, Working Women, Entrepreneurs, and the Mexican Revolution: The Coffee Culture of Córdoba, Veracruz (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2013), pp. xv + 418, £31.00, pb.

Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler, The Plan de San Diego: Tejano Rebellion, Mexican Intrigue (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2013), pp. xvi + 338, £31.00, pb.

Jaime Marroquín Arredondo, Adela Pineda Franco and Magdalena Mieri (eds.), Open Borders to a Revolution: Culture, Politics, and Migration (Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution, 2013), pp. viii + 275, $39.95, hb.

Shaylih Muehlmann, Where the River Ends: Contested Indigeneity in the Mexican Colorado Delta (Durham, NC, and London: Duke University Press, 2013), pp. xiii + 220, £64.00, £15.99 pb.

Jaime M. Pensado, Rebel Mexico: Student Unrest and Authoritarian Political Culture during the Long Sixties (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013), pp. xvi + 339, $65.00, hb and e-book.

Douglas W. Richmond and Sam W. Haynes (eds.), The Mexican Revolution: Conflict and Consolidation, 1910–1940 (College Station, TX: Texas A&M University, 2013), pp. x + 251, $35.00, hb.

José María Serna de la Garza, The Constitution of Mexico: A Contextual Analysis (Oxford and Portland, OR: Hart Publishing, 2013), pp. xxiv + 229, £18.95 pb, £17.06 e-book.

PERU

Joshua Tucker, Gentleman Troubadours and Andean Pop Stars: Huayno Music, Media Work, and Ethnic Imaginaries in Urban Peru (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2013), pp. 232, $30.00; £21.00, pb.

Fiona Wilson, Citizenship and Political Violence in Peru: An Andean Town, 1870s–1970s (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. xiii + 229, £57.50, hb.

PUERTO RICO

Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores, Locked In, Locked Out: Gated Communities in a Puerto Rican City (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013), pp. xiv + 220, $65.00; £42.50, hb.

Luis E. González Vales and María Dolores Luque (eds.), Historia de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Oficina de Servicios Legislativos, Historiador de Puerto Rico, Centro de Investigaciones Históricas de la UPR, Recinto de Río Piedras and Ediciones Doce Calles, 2013), pp. 878, pb.

URUGUAY

Francesca Lessa, Memory and Transitional Justice in Argentina and Uruguay: Against Impunity (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), pp. xvi + 319, £57.50, hb.